South Australian Country Hour ABC Radio

South Australia raises urgent concerns with the Victorian Government over changes to wild dog management, researchers who've spent decades coming up with a better bioharvesting method for wool say they're almost to the point of commercial viability, and Australia's octopus fisheries are being trained in how to age an octopus to help the resource remain sustainable.

The National Farmers' Federation calls for the Food and Grocery Code to be made mandatory for the major supermarkets, a new report suggests while global production is up, Aussie consumption of veggies is down, and Elders trials a state-wide online clearing sale for the for the first time in its 185 year history.

Beston Global Food Company splits its payments to its milk suppliers amid challenging conditions facing the dairy industry, the Federal Government decides that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority will stay in Armidale, and Australian wool producers get a revamped scheme to set certified sustainable wool standards.

South Australian irrigators that rely on the River Murray likely to get their full water entitlements in the coming financial year, a two year old heifer from the state's South East sells for $130,000 to top this year's Elite Wagyu Sale, and a Senate inquiry looks at supermarket price transparency and the codes governing the relationships between fresh food suppliers and retailers.

The Almond Board of Australia expects the industry to be worth $2billion in the next five years, a number of cases of Bovine Ephemeral Fever found in cattle in the south west region of NSW, and the feral goat population almost eradicated in the Montacute area of the Adelaide Hills.

SA producers shown how to use EID ear tag technology to make some production gains in sheep, recent heavy rains in parts of the outback, and the floodwaters arriving from the north take their toll on the state's most remote roads, and research continues on the potential impacts of releasing a carp herpes virus on both pest and native fish.